Metal-working machine.



T. P. PAYNE.

METAL WORKING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 16- 1913- Patented Sept. 25, 1917.

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METAL WORKING MACHINE.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 16, 1913.

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APPLI CATION FILED SEPT-16, I913.

Patented Sept. 25, 1917.

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Patented Sept. 25, 1917.

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METAL WORKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 16. 1913.

Patented Sept. 25, 1917.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 16. 1913.

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THEODORE P. PAYNE, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO STEEL UTILITIES, IN COBPORATED, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

METAL-WORKING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1917.

Application filed September 16, 1913. Serial No. 790,085.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE P. PAYNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Metal-\Vorking Machines, of which the following. is a specificalength, and to do this expeditiously and accurately even With large and heavy shapes, and to provide novel instrumentalities for effecting the foregoing; to provide for continuous operation by the machine upon one shape after another; to provide for taking successively beams varying greatly insizes and proportions and (operating thereon Without stoppage or manual readjustment of'the mechanisms; to provide for automatic taking and perforating of successive shapes irrespective of variations in size; to provide for simultaneous perforating of the different parts of a beam or other shape on one progression thereof through the machine; to provide for automatic positioning of the tools relatively to the particular sized shape which is next to be operated. upon; to provide for automatic measuring of the successive shapes; to provide suitable means,

checks and safe-guardsfor the proper se-- quential operation of the various combined elements and parts of the machine; to provide for the maintenance of an adequate supply of shapes, and to provide for a reserve supply and for irregularities and variances between the replenishment of the supply and the taking therefrom of shapes by the machine; to provide novel means for removing the perforated shapes from the machine; to provide for the control of the entire machine from a central point or station by a single operator; to provide in cooperation with the other instrumentalities, settable distance determining devices and to provide for operating same from such central station; to provide a machine especially capable of handling and perforating heavy Fig. 14;

and large structural work and placing the perforations therein with exactitude, and also to do so with rapidity as well as to pro vide for so operating upon the heavy and large pieces as they come successively varying in Weights and dimensions, and completing the perforating of such shapes at one running through the machine; and to provide in connection with all these various enumerated objects and services novel means and instrumentalities for effecting same. These and other objects of invention Will in part be obvious and Will in part be set forth hereinafter.

The invention consists in novel parts, in-

strumentalities, means, combinations and improvements. herein shown and described.

The accompanying drawings referred to herein and forming a part hereof, illustrate a machine embodying by way of example,

the principles of the invention.

Of the drawings:

Figures 1, 2, 3 and @L, constitute together' a plan view of a machine embodying the arranged partly above Figs. 1 and 2. Duplicated parts at the ends of the machine are omitted for the sake of clearness, as are invention; Figs. 1, 2 and 3 being arranged 8 together from left to right, and Fig. 4 being also certain other parts Which are shown in their proper relation in other figures.

Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are a combined elevation, corresponding to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, and looking at said figures from the bottom;

Fig. 5 is a detail of the dials of beam measuring device;

Fig. 8 is a transverse elevation taken on line C-D of Fig. 2 looking to the right;

Fig. 9 is a transverse elevation on line AB of Fig. l; v

Fig. 10 is a fragmentary sectional elevafhtm on line E.F of Fig. 9 looking to the Fig. 11 isa fragmentary elevation looking at Fig. 10 from the right;

12 1s a transverse sectional elevation on l1ne GH of Fig. 9 looking to the left;

Fig. 13 is a. fragmentary elevation'look- 1 ing at Fig. 12 from the right;

Fig. 14 is an enlarged fragmentary elevation corresponding to the left hand end of Fig. 9; v

Fig. 15 is a fragmentary elevation corresponding to the upper left hand corner of 1 Fig. 16 is a fragmentary sectional elevation on line GH of Fig. 14;

Fig. 17 is a fragmentary sectional elevation on line 'IJ of Fig. 14;

5 Fig. 18 is a fragmentary elevation, partly in section with the central part broken away, of the connection between the control shaft and the rack connected to the spacing head (said parts being shown on a smaller scale to the right of the center in Fig.

Fig. 19 is an enlargedv fragmentary plan view, with the central part broken away, of spacing device for movable flange punch and connections (shown on smaller scale at right hand end of Fig. 1 and at the central part of Fig. 2) v Fig. 20 isa fragmentary detail elevation of the lower left hand end of Fig. 19, the circuit wiring of Fig. 19 (being shown connected up thereto forthe sake of clearn'ess;

Fig. 21 is a fragmentary elevation corresponding to the lower part of Fig. 19, and shows a beam in position Fig. 22 is a fragmentary sectional elevational on line N M of Fig. 19, showing the roller in lowered position; v

Fig. 23 corresponds to Fig. 22, but showing the roller raised;

Fig. 24 is an enlarged section on line OP of Fig. 19;

Fig. 25 is a fragmentary elevation of the devices for positioning the punch relatively to the beam (shown also in'Fig. 8)

Fig. 26 is an enlarged view of the upper portion of Fig. 25;

Fig. 27 is a central vertical, transverse section of the flange punch spacing and op: erating devices;

Fig. 28 is a horizontal section taken just above the center of Fig. 27; s

Fig. 29 is a View corresponding to Fig.- 28 of a somewhat different form, of punch spacing and operating devices;

Fig. 30 is a horizontal section on Fig. 29 taken just above the center; i

Fig. 31 is-a fragmentary elevation, with parts in section, of the devices for positioning the web punches (shown also in Fig. 8)

Fig. 32- is a fragmentary plan of the gag operating "devices for the web punches (shown also in Fig. 2);

. Fig. 33 is a central section on line Q'R of Fig. 32 showing one position of the gag relatively to the punches; Fig.34 is a similar view to Fig. 33 with the gag in a different position; i Figs. 35 and 36 are similar to Figs. 33 and 3 1. but showin the gags in different positions, respective y; V

Fig. 37 is a sectional elevation on line .ST of Fig. 3, showing the beam discharging mechanism;

Fig. 38 is a fragmentary sectional elevation on line UV of Fig. 3; '5 Fig. 39 is a fragmentary elevation of one of the ga operating levers, shown in plan in upper eft-hand part of Fig. 4;;

Fig. 40 is a front elevation of the control for positioning the flange punches;

Fig. 41 is a plan of the foot release for the beam progressing mechanism (shown in plan in the contiguous bottom part of Fig.

4) and Fig. 42 is a diagrammatic view of the' wiring. The machine of the present invention is adapted to operate upon beams of widely different dimensions, both as to their length and as to their other dimensions, and in accordancewith certain features of the invention the machine adapts 0r automatically adjusts itself to the various sizes of beams and operates upon them to punch the beams accurately in accordance with the desired indications or dimensions.

In certain of its aspects, the invention provides for feeding up or rendering available a relatively large number of beams or structural shapes, so that they may be brought to a convenient point of supply and there may constitute a reserve supply on hand so that the machine will be able to take a new beam or shape as soon as a preceding one is completed, and the machine may thus be continuously in operation irre spective of any interruptions or irregularity in the supply .of the shapes. The reserve supply of beams or shapes which is kept by the machine, and one of which may be separated from such supply and be operated 160 upon by the machine as soon as the preced ing beam is finished, provides an automatically available reserve supply between the machine and the means for transporting or supplying the beams thereto.

As provided further by the invention, in accordance with certain features thereof, the machine will take successively, and while being run continuously, beams or other shapes of widely different sizes and propor- .tions and operate upon them without any necessity for stopping and readjusting the machine. I

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which-illustrate by way of example one em- 1115 bodiment of the invention, and referring for the present more particularly to the embodied mechanism for effecting the services just enumerated, together with other services (best shownin Figs. 1, 5 9 and 14:), means are provided for receiving a plurality of beams or shapes of various and different sizes and of indeterminate number, and

' keeping them available so that'theymay be taken successively one by one automatically 5 by the mechanism to be progressed, positioned and punched by the machine.

In said illustrated embodiment, there are provided a plurality of stationary supports or rails 1, upon which the beams or shapes 

